Since election night in California, a single theory of election fraud has taken root like no other among online conspiracy theorists, bot accounts, conservative influencers and people close to President Trump. It proved to be a simple misreading of the voting data.
AT&T and Verizon lost an attempt to overturn fines for selling users' real-time location data without consent ... read more
Container shipping rates jumped over the past week amid higher fuel costs, congestion at some Asian ports and a pickup in demand heading into a peak season for booking ocean freight.
Measles cases in the United States have surpassed 2,000 for the second year in a row, according to data updated Friday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). read more
A US trade judge took the unusual step of personally responding to the Trump administration's appeal of his order to refund $166 billion in tariffs the Supreme Court declared unlawful, calling the government's filings "colorful" and questioning its legal stance. read more
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Airports and airlines want travelers to ditch their plastic water bottles (2019)
www.cnbc.com
... Business and leisure travelers concerned about climate change and "flight shame" may do their part by purchasing carbon offsets and adjusting the number of trips they take on airplanes....
Airports and airlines are trying to save the planet, too, with a wide range of sustainable initiatives that include cutting down on single-use plastics and making reusable water bottles essential travel amenities.
In 2019, San Francisco International Airport launched an ambitious Zero Waste Concessions Program designed to significantly reduce the amount of single-use disposable plastic used at the airport.
Noting that in 2018 nearly 4 million slow-to-biodegrade plastic water bottles were sold at the airport, in August 2019 it became the first airport in the nation to ban the sale of single-use plastic water bottles.
The San Francisco airport now actively encourages each passenger to bring their own reusable water bottle with them to the airport and get free water from one of the hydration stations in the terminals. ...
@#53 ... "And now for something completely different ..." ...
That phrase was from (from me) the Monty Python series on PBS back in the day.
To wit ...
Monty Python's and Now for Something Completely Different (1971)
www.imdb.com
But that's video, not music. So. I'm moving on ...
And now for something completely different ...
Tomita - Golliwogg's Cakewalk (Children's Corner, No. 6) (1974)
www.youtube.com
... Play us some new artists, original or covers... or just what your are listening to. ...
OK.
Currently listening to ...
Leather Nun - I Can Smell Your Thoughts (remixed by Aron) (1987)
www.youtube.com
An update (sort of ...) ...
Astronauts briefly moved to 'safe haven' over ISS leak
www.newsnationnow.com
... Five of the seven crew members on the International Space Station were briefly moved to a "safe haven" due to an air leak Friday morning.
NASA directed astronauts to wait inside a docked SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft while Russian cosmonauts work to repair some cracks in a transfer tunnel on the Russian side of the ISS.
The astronauts were allowed to leave the capsule shortly after, as the cosmonauts paused repair work while more data is being assessed.
The aging space station is set to be retired in 2030 and has required more maintenance as time wears on, with crew members performing repair work as part of their missions.
There has been an issue with the cracks in the transfer tunnel causing leaks since 2019, and it is considered a top safety risk.
The Zvezda service model is one of the oldest on the ISS, launched in 1998. The transfer tunnel connects the Zvezda module with a docking port for supplies and Soyuz crew members.
Russian cosmonauts have made attempts to repair the small cracks but have only slowed the leaks, which lose about a couple of pounds of air each day. To manage the leaks, the hatch to the tunnel is kept closed except when a spacecraft docks.
Roscosmos has said the hatch to the service module can be closed if the leak becomes too severe. However, a 2024 report noted NASA and Roscosmos have not come to an agreement on the point at which the leak becomes an untenable threat, and there could be additional complications from closing Zvezda.
Those include the loss of a docking port, which could impact cargo delivery, and the need for additional propellant to maintain the station's position. ...
@#44 ... You do realize fruits and vegetables are responsible for 46% of foodborne illness, right? ...
I don't realize that.
Please provide data (with links, i.e., not the usual stuff your current alias seems to just make up as it goes along) to convince me.
thx.
btw, found this ...
Annual Reports on Foodborne Illness Source Attribution Estimates
www.cdc.gov
Non-paywall version ...
Trump's lawyers sought to halt discovery in $10 billion BBC lawsuit
www.reuters.com
... U.S. President Donald Trump's lawyers asked a federal judge in May for a stay of the discovery process in his $10-billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC, pending the outcome of a request to shift such matters to a different judge. ...
@#63 ... Like the DNC's obsession with Russia funding the GOP?
Absurd, right? ...
I'm not there yet.
Russia funding the GOP? I've not yet seen evidence of that.
The Pres Trump acting in Pres Putin's interests?
Yeah, I've seen evidence of that.
I know, it is a subtle distinction, but one worth noting, imo.